STATE OF NEW YORK
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4301
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 7 of article 4 of the constitution, in
relation to requiring the governor submit to oral questions from the
legislature annually
1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 7 of article
2 4 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
3 § 7. (a) Every bill which shall have passed the senate and assembly
4 shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the governor; if the
5 governor approve, he or she shall sign it; but if not, he or she shall
6 return it with his or her objections to the house in which it shall have
7 originated, which shall enter the objections at large on the journal,
8 and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two-thirds
9 of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it
10 shall be sent together with the objections, to the other house, by which
11 it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of the
12 members elected to that house, it shall become a law notwithstanding the
13 objections of the governor. In all such cases the votes in both houses
14 shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the members
15 voting shall be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If
16 any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays
17 excepted) after it shall have been presented to him or her, the same
18 shall be a law in like manner as if he or she had signed it, unless the
19 legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which
20 case it shall not become a law without the approval of the governor. No
21 bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the legislature,
22 unless approved by the governor within thirty days after such adjourn-
23 ment. If any bill presented to the governor contain several items of
24 appropriation of money, the governor may object to one or more of such
25 items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case the
26 governor shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a state-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ment of the items to which he or she objects; and the appropriation so
2 objected to shall not take effect. If the legislature be in session, he
3 or she shall transmit to the house in which the bill originated a copy
4 of such statement, and the items objected to shall be separately recon-
5 sidered. If on reconsideration one or more of such items be approved by
6 two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the same shall be part
7 of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the governor. All the
8 provisions of this section, in relation to bills not approved by the
9 governor, shall apply in cases in which he or she shall withhold
10 approval from any item or items contained in a bill appropriating money.
11 (b) The governor shall submit in person to oral questions from the
12 legislature for two hours in joint session once per year at a time set
13 by agreement of the senate and assembly.
14 § 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendments be
15 referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
16 next succeeding general election of the members of the assembly, and, in
17 conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
18 published for three months previous to the time of such election.
